Background

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Through its Democratic Governance Programme, UNDP Ukraine assists the government, civil society and people of Ukraine in advancing democratic policies and practices needed to accelerate progress on sustainable human development and human rights promotion. This includes advocating for human rights and gender equality, supporting anti-corruption efforts, ensuring that all Ukrainian citizens can protect their rights, strengthening parliament, and empowering civil society and youth activists.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the Project’s public relations activities, communications strategy, social media and website (if applicable);
• Support the activities of the Project, including advocacy and awareness-raising efforts;
• Manage and maintain multimedia databases;
• Produce analytical documents and project reports;
• Ensure the mainstreaming of gender equality and women’s empowerment considerations in the field of expertise; 
• Promote a safe and enabling environment free of discrimination and abusive behaviour;
• Perform other duties as necessary.

• Shape project’s communications strategy in cooperation with relevant MDT stakeholders and the Government of Sweden;
• Lead the Project’s public relations activities in collaboration with businesses, CSO and government sector to minimise the environmental impact of the Project (initiate and conduct campaigns to minimise electronic waste);
• Identify stories, and provide inputs to the development of content for the office/project website and social media channels;
• Identify storylines and achievements within the office for online and printed publications;
• Administer social media channels and prepare creative contents for online dissemination;
• Track and monitor print and social media and report relevant information to senior staff to inform strategy development;
• Update the website and social media channels, ensure consistency in branding;
• Ensure that all Project communications adhere to the corporate communications guidelines and printing norms and are coherent with the Diia branding.

• Provide support to advocacy efforts and campaigns by organising roundtable discussions, press conferences, and other public events and providing inputs to briefing materials and press releases;
• Coordinate the dissemination of advocacy materials to appropriate stakeholders;
• Serve as the Project’s spokesperson, as necessary;
• Moderate and facilitate events, including high-level ones;
• Engage in project travel to report on the work of the Project from the field.
• Oversee the performance of external contractors that develop photo-, video-, textual or digital materials for the Project.

• Maintain library/ database of reference materials, photos and digital assets;
• Maintain and update a database of the relevant press in the country;
• Maintain files, databases, and systems pertinent to the project digital presence.

• Design terms of reference for and supervise work of consultants and commercial companies designing awareness-raising products. Design and, in cooperation with the Policy and M&E Associate measure effectiveness of strategic communications efforts;
• Research, compile and produce reports on web statistics regularly and electronic surveys, as required;
• Design talking points and process Project’s materials for different audiences;
• Contribute to the identification of best practices and lessons learned;
• Collect information, prepare press releases, articles, key messages and other advocacy materials;
• Assist in translation, adaptation, or rewriting of information received for the local context;
• Participate in the training for the operations/programme staff; 
• Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
• Produce analytical and public relations-related documents;
• Produce regular reporting for the Project to both the Government of Sweden and, on an ad-hoc basis, to other stakeholders.

• Use the principles of gender-responsive communications in line with the UNDP corporate standards
• Make sure that all products, communications, awareness-raising materials, curricula, video and print products properly include issues of gender equality and gender equity and help promote equal opportunities for women and men;

• Support the promotion of team culture of gender equality and zero tolerance to any sexual misconduct in the team through leadership and personal example
• Demonstrate respect for gender equality in professional interactions, identify and address sexism and gender discrimination

• Support the preparation of media strategies in line with corporate guidelines is provided;
• Effective channels for dissemination of all information products to relevant target audiences identified and distribution ensured;
• Regional and nation-wide communications campaigns are successfully implemented;
• Donor and ad-hoc reporting is delivered on time and in accordance with the highest quality standards.

• Timely inputs to communication and advocacy materials;
• Timely organisation of discussions, conferences, briefings and other events;
• Timely provision of relevant background information;
• Accurately edited and well-written contents;
• Timely delivery of high-quality communication and advocacy materials;
• Webpages are regularly maintained, updated and relevant.

Competencies

• Leadership;
• Innovation;
• Communication;
• Commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
• Cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Ethics and integrity;  
• Corporate knowledge and sound judgment; 
• Being able to act as a team player and facilitating teamwork; 
• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively; 
• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.

• Mature judgment combined with a proactive, energetic approach to problem-solving; 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including acceptance of responsibility to ensure that organisational objectives, policies and requirements are met;
• Ability to manage external teams of consultants, ability to handle politically sensitive issues and contacts within government authorities and UNDP;
• Strong organisational and time management skills;
• Capacity to transfer knowledge and motivate people and to build relationships with colleagues, partners, beneficiaries, government authorities, donor organisations and other stakeholders;
• Client orientation;
• Working in teams;
• Ability to communicate visually and create appealing UNDP graphic products;
• Ability to communicate the value and distinct characteristics of a product or service and to understand the market landscape;
• Originating and/or editing written content for media and the general public to be disseminated through press or other online outlets;
• Knowledge of gender equality and women’s empowerment issues and ability to apply it to strategic and practical situations, e.g. integrating into the project/programme cycle, including design, planning, and implementation 

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Journalism, Media / Public Relations, International Relations, Political / Social Sciences, International Relations, or related field

• Minimum three (3) years of relevant experience in project/programme support in the field of communications, journalism, public relations, media relations, or related fields;
• Experience with leveraging social media for communications;
• Demonstrated experience of managing communications contracts (with production centres, PR firms) in terms of quality assurance;
• Understanding of strategic communications’ monitoring tools and frameworks;
• Experience in the usage of computers and software packages: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, basic experience in handling web-based management systems and visual design (photo editing, video editing, publishing software packages);
• Experience in communicating digital transformation for the government, corporate world or in the non-governmental domain.

• Fluency in English, Ukrainian and Russian languages (both spoken and written).

Please apply here https://jobs.partneragencies.net/erecruitjobs.html?JobOpeningId=35096&HRS_JO_PST_SEQ=1&hrs_site_id=2